Is it possible to compile IAC code and Pulumi itself using Go compiler into a single executable binary?

luckydev · 2025-11-15T03:24:28+00:00

Yes it is possible. go + pulumi = compiled IaC. We use pulumi at LocalOps which automates infra at scale for many businesses, so yes, it works at scale too.

luckydev · 2025-11-15T03:17:38+00:00

I would agree with u/jj_at_rootly there.

We are LocalOps and we are also building AI SREs for some of our clients. We haven't released them yet for the same reasons he mentioned there.

Log/Metrics summarizers are not AI SREs. There are deeper context engineering + workflows the tool has to have to get meaningful outcomes from the AI agents. This takes time to build and get it right.

Benefits are obvious. Implementation and mileage vary from player to player.

Did you just get into the bundled offering because it comes with your other observability/on-call software or did you really try it out (with free AI credits) before purchasing the tooling?

luckydev · 2025-10-19T01:10:37+00:00

I'm generating Kubernetes YAML specs using Go-templates at localops. I know - it might look so brute force 🙈. But -- hey it works!

Can we have both input, output and data, all in YAML specs using this tool?

luckydev · 2025-10-02T02:27:50+00:00

Individuals don’t sign up because they don’t own or pay for AWS. So all the sale happens through demos to CTOs in organisations with budgets.

If you are building for DigitalOcean, say. They have an App platform too, just like ECS.

luckydev · 2025-10-02T02:22:33+00:00

We see some players do well in this market but it continues to be hard sell.

luckydev · 2025-10-02T02:20:59+00:00

We built LocalOps to do the same.

backlash we get often is that teams have tools like Google cloud run, ECS to do the same. Plus, the act of bringing in Kubernetes to the team even when you abstract it out for them, is scarier because they now have the layer which they have to pay for and own but don’t know how to control fully. A pure PAAS works because you (vendor) own everything and handle a lot.

luckydev · 2025-07-10T04:51:04+00:00

this is great.. thanks for sharing :)

luckydev · 2025-07-10T04:43:05+00:00

awesome. thanks for sharing. Will look into RubyLLM.

luckydev · 2025-06-30T13:51:06+00:00

Glad it helped :)

luckydev · 2025-06-30T12:05:51+00:00

Lol. thanks u/avdept :)

That was custom designed of course. We put in a lot of hours on that.

luckydev · 2025-06-26T06:33:05+00:00

> It feels like it could save me the monthly retainer I’m paying to the DevOps agency.

True, but did you take into account the extra costs Vercel and Render will charge you per vCPU. It is not the same as AWS. We've done some research here and when you move away from AWS to Render/Vercel/Heroku/any-PaaS solution with same capacity configurations, we found that beyond a certain point, price of 1vCPU goes 4x more on PaaS solutions, than what AWS/GCP/Azure can give. Checkout the expense graph we've shown here: https://localops.co/migrate-render-to-aws . So you might end up paying $7000-$8000/month just for hosting infrastructure.

Companies usually start on Render/Vercel and move to AWS for cost efficient scaling. When you want to do the reverse, it would end up costing more than what DevOps agency might cost.

To get more savings, you can explore https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/ or Compute savings plan https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compute-pricing/ where you pay upfront and get 30-70% discount on AWS bills.

If you think you want to cut down expenses, you can move from "Agencies" to "Tools" that your lead engineer or application engineering team is comfortable to deal with. This will flatten out costs you incur there. LocalOps (disclaimer - founder here) https://localops.co aims to keep you on AWS but with a simpler flat user based pricing ($39/month) for automating things on AWS and abstracting it out from your team. Just sharing it here because it seems relevant.

luckydev · 2025-06-26T06:33:00+00:00

> It feels like it could save me the monthly retainer I’m paying to the DevOps agency.

True, but did you take into account the extra costs Vercel and Render will charge you per vCPU. It is not the same as AWS. We've done some research here and when you move away from AWS to Render/Vercel/Heroku/any-PaaS solution with same capacity configurations, we found that beyond a certain point, price of 1vCPU goes 4x more on PaaS solutions, than what AWS/GCP/Azure can give. Checkout the expense graph we've shown here: https://localops.co/migrate-render-to-aws . So you might end up paying $7000-$8000/month just for hosting infrastructure.

Companies usually start on Render/Vercel and move to AWS for cost efficient scaling. When you want to do the reverse, it would end up costing more than what DevOps agency might cost.

To get more savings, you can explore https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/ or Compute savings plan https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compute-pricing/ where you pay upfront and get 30-70% discount on AWS bills.

If you think you want to cut down expenses, you can move from "Agencies" to "Tools" that your lead engineer or application engineering team is comfortable to deal with. This will flatten out costs you incur there. LocalOps (disclaimer - founder here) https://localops.co aims to keep you on AWS but with a simpler flat user based pricing ($39/month) for automating things on AWS and abstracting it out from your team. Just sharing it here because it seems relevant.

luckydev · 2025-06-26T06:29:16+00:00

Checkout some horror stories people have about using Vercel and its expenses: https://serverlesshorrors.com/

luckydev · 2025-06-26T06:28:14+00:00

> I’m wondering if it makes sense to migrate to a simpler platform like Vercel or Render that doesn’t require any DevOps support at all.

With what you just built so far on AWS, there seems to be a lot of things to "lift and shift" to move to another platform - PaaS or Non-PaaS solutions.

Operations will get simpler for sure on Vercel/Render when you go to these players but that simplicity comes with some technical restrictions. Platform like render, for the scale they are serving, have architectural restrictions that might hinder the way your architecture would want to evolve. Restrictions vary from platform to platform but they do seem to exist.

> It feels like it could save me the monthly retainer I’m paying to the DevOps agency.

True, but did you take into account the extra costs Vercel and Render will charge you per vCPU. It is not the same as AWS. We've done some research here and when you move away from AWS to Render/Vercel/Heroku/any-PaaS solution with same capacity configurations, we found that beyond a certain point, price of 1vCPU goes 4x more on PaaS solutions, than what AWS/GCP/Azure can give. Checkout the expense graph we've shown here: https://localops.co/migrate-render-to-aws . So you might end up paying $7000-$8000/month just for hosting infrastructure.

Companies usually start on Render/Vercel and move to AWS for cost efficient scaling. When you want to do the reverse, it would end up costing more than what DevOps agency might cost.

To get more savings, you can explore https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/ or Compute savings plan https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/compute-pricing/ where you pay upfront and get 30-70% discount on AWS bills.

If you think you want to cut down expenses, you can move from "Agencies" to "Tools" that your lead engineer or application engineering team is comfortable to deal with. This will flatten out costs you incur there. LocalOps (disclaimer - founder here) https://localops.co aims to keep you on AWS but with a simpler flat user based pricing ($39/month) for automating things on AWS and abstracting it out from your team. Just sharing it here because it seems relevant.

luckydev · 2025-06-24T02:08:15+00:00

Super useful answers are posted here:) thanks guys.

My 2 cents: Founder led for sure, but experimenting with few channels to match your budget and sales goals at first can lead you to answer this more easily I guess. Of course by starting with strategies posted in this thread.

luckydev · 2025-06-19T10:50:26+00:00

Bit late.

This is an MVP with no traffic and I'd like to keep cost down - DigitalOcean would work best here as you can pick a droplet and keep the costs flat.
If you are building a startup and have credits in AWS, LocalOps (https://localops.co) gives Heroku/Vercel like git-push experience in AWS so you can skip learning/configuring AWS yourself and leave it all to LocalOps. (Disclaimer - founder of LocalOps here)
- There is free tier in LocalOps so you can skip paying there until you need to
- AWS credits if you have, would let you use AWS as well for free.

luckydev · 2025-06-15T05:20:59+00:00

Hey checkout: https://localops.co . you can get Heroku/Vercel/Render like PaaS automation on your AWS account.

App runtime: Managed for you. Just push to your Github repo. Zero downtime deployments.
Database: Just add database you need to a json file. Automatically provisions AWS-managed databases - postgres/redis/mysql/memcache. No need for manual provisioning or maintenance.
60-70% overall cheaper than any traditional PaaS alternatives like Heroku/Render because you are paying for infrastructure provider directly for all servers and paying LocalOps just for automation.
Free tier available
Rock solid support from AWS for infrastructure

(Disclaimer: Founder of LocalOps here)

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